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 Upcoming Events:

Peer Consultation Group for LCSW practitioners meets every second Friday in Poughkeepsie, year round.

Recent Events:

November 6, 2011:
The Psychiatric Medicine Dilemma: Children and Adolescents - How to Decide When Medicine Might Help!

April 23, 2011:
Borderline Personality Disorder: Two Treatment Models

March 26, 2011:
Met Chapter Conference: “Expanding and Sustaining a Successful Clinical Practice in the 21st Century”

March 19, 2011:
Play Therapy with Gloria Robbins, LCSW

January 22, 2011:
Theraplay, a Relationship-Attachment Based Family Play Therapy 

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Listen to Your Body: Helping Clients Learn to Listen and Trust Their Body's Signals
Saturday, January 28, 2012
10:30AM- 12:30PM
Benedictine Hospital Conference Room
Mary's Road Kingston, New York
for directions call (845)- 338-2500

Our presenter, Cindy Dern LCSW, will offer hands-on techniques which may apply to all clients, and especially to those who disconnect from their feelings and emotional body due to trauma, food and addiction issues, health struggles, and those dealing with significant stress.

All mental health clinicians and students are welcome.

Workshops are without cost to NYSSCSW Members; $25 for non-members; $15 for students.  

CEU’s available to all.

Sign in, networking and refreshments at 10:00am

To Register, please write Jeanne Asma   jeanneasma@optonline.net

For information, write: Rosemary Cohen   rosemarycohen@gmail.com

The Psychiatric Medicine Dilemma: Children and Adolescents
How to Decide When Medicine Might Help!
Sunday, November 6, 2011, Workshop
10:30am – 12:30pm Standard Time Begins
Vassar Brothers Medical Center
Conference Room B
Poughkeepsie, New York

Our Presenter will be Dr. Kevin T. Kalikow, Clinical Assistant Professor in Child Psychiatry at New York Medical College, who also teaches at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.  He is the author of:  Your Child in the Balance: An Insider's Guide for Parents to the Psychiatric Medicine Dilemma, and Kids on Meds: Up-to-Date Information About the Most Commonly Prescribed Psychiatric Medications. 

Dr. Kalikow writes that both books were written to address the thorny topic of prescribing psychiatric medicines to children.  The former volume helps parents and clinicians understand how doctors decide to prescribe medicine and whether medicine is the right treatment for their child.  The second reviews the use, side effects and theory behind the many medicines used in child psychiatry.

All mental health clinicians and students are welcome. CEU’s available.

To Register, please write:  Jeanne Asma  jeanneasma@optonline.net

For information, write: Rosemary Cohen  rosemarycohen@gmail.com

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Borderline Personality Disorder: Two Treatment Models
DBT (Linehan) and Mentalization (Fonagy) with Jacinta ‘Cindy’ Marschke, Ph.D., LCSW
Saturday, April 23, at Benedictine Hospital
Conference Room, 10:15am-12:30pm

Dr. Marschke will present a brief overview of current research and its relevance for understanding and treating this patient population.  The two models will be described and contrasted.  Discussed will be a rationale for matching different models of treatment with differing patients who share a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder.

She is an MSW graduate of Fordham University and completed her Ph.D. at Smith College School of Social Work.  While in that program she conducted a follow-up study of formerly hospitalized adolescents diagnosed with BPD, who were treated using James Masterson’s psychoanalytic treatment model.  Since then she has introduced the DBT model to mental health providers and conducted groups with patients with BPD and their parents.  Currently she is in private practice in Kingston, New York, and works for the EAP Services of the Mid-Hudson Valley.  She has been a past president of the NYSSCSW and of its Mid-Hudson Chapter. 

All mental health providers and students are welcome.  Networking and refreshments beginning 10:00am.
Mid-Hudson Chapter workshops are free to members; $25. for non-members; and, $15. for students.
Please address inquiries to:  Rosemary Cohen at:  rosemarycohen@gmail.com

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Met Chapter Conference – Open to all chapters
“Expanding and Sustaining a Successful Clinical Practice in the 21st Century”
For Members Only!
WHEN: Saturday, March 26, 2011
TIME: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
WHERE: Nightingale-Bamford
             School, 20 East 92nd St.

Registration/Refreshments – 9 am
Plenary Session – 9:30 am

Essential Marketing Skills to Build Your Practice – Vikram Rajan

Workshop #1:
Understanding the Legal Requirements for a Secure Clinical Practice – Michelle Cuevas

Workshop #2:
Using the Internet in Your Private Practice: Technical and Ethical Considerations – Craig Sloane

Workshop #3:
Building Your Practice by Leading Professional Workshops – Phyllis Mervis

Workshop #4:
Making Your Professional Voice Heard – Moderator: Libby Kessman
(a) Turning Your Ideas into Books for General Consumers – Mary-Ellen Siegel
(b) Expanding Your Practice by Writing for Mass Media - Sheri Heller
(c) Growing Your Private Practice Through Blogging – Leslie Zeigler

Workshop #5:
Practice-Building Fundamentals: Tried and True Strategies That Work – Lynne Spevack

Workshop #6:
A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing for Professional Journals – Roberta Ann Shechter

More information to follow – to receive a Registration Form by return e-mail, contact marciako@verizon.net.

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Play Therapy with Gloria Robbins, LCSW
Saturday, March 19, 2011, Workshop
10:15am-12:30pm
Vassar Brother Medical Center Conference Room A
Poughkeepsie, New York 
 
Gloria Robbins is a longtime private practitioner in the Hudson Valley, trained in Psychodrama, Bio-energetics, Rhythmic Integration, Jungian Analysis and Play Therapy.  Ms. Robbins has studied with many Spiritual Masters, and has conducted workshops and trainings internationally. She has led The Women’s Group in Poughkeepsie for over thirty-five years. 

She will present her teaching video “Ego In Motion”, showing four pre-school children in various stages of ego development.  The viewer observes the presenting problem, interventions by the therapist and changes that occur over time.   The less developed ego demands a more passive presence by the therapist, in order to enhance and strengthen the ego.

The more developed ego demands more interaction between the therapist and child in the working through of unresolved conflicts.  The principles of play therapy will be discussed during the viewing and can be generalized to treatment with children of all ages, adolescents and adults. 

All mental health clinicians and students are welcome.
Sign in, refreshments and networking at 10:00 am.
Society members: no fee; non-member participants: $25. Students; $15.
Please send inquiries to:  rosemarycohen@gmail.com

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